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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Something to be Scared Of.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?
(a) All repulsion.
(b) All hatred.
(c) All desire.
(d) All repression.

2. Kristeva says a significant part of maturation for a boy is a distancing from what?
(a) His parents' love.
(b) His toys.
(c) His mother's body.
(d) His father.

3. Kristeva makes use of what complex to explain the genesis of the abject?
(a) Oedipus.
(b) Puer.
(c) Anima.
(d) Senex.

4. Kristeva says the fears a child has are pre-linguistic and therefore are what?
(a) Misunderstood.
(b) Unknown.
(c) Explainable.
(d) Inexpressible.

5. What state does Freud say a subject will be sent into when the repressed desire for one's mother's body breaks out of its repression?
(a) Narcissism.
(b) Sin.
(c) Self-loathing.
(d) Evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject is created from repressing what?

2. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?

3. The Oedipus complex assumes that the child's first object of desire is what?

4. According to the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle, all desire is modeled on the pattern of what?

5. Who does Kristeva say is not directly involved when a child is weaned from his mother's breast?

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